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Last week the Malaysian government stepped up its efforts to crush the Communist drive. It began talks in Kuala Lumpur with neighboring Thailand to strengthen their common border operations against the 700 hard-core veteran Communists who are still believed to direct underground operations in Malaysia from frontier jungle hideouts. The Malaysians have already set up a joint army and police border command to fight the terrorists, and are hoping to persuade the Thais to do the same. The two governments agreed to allow each other's troops to cross the border in pursuit of Communist terrorists. Declaring that "the Communist threat is alive and quite serious," Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak called for new emergency laws to deal with it. As a result of tougher police methods and large-scale infiltration of cover organizations by government intelligence men, the Malaysians have rounded up more than 1,000 Communists in the last few months. Special Address. The Malaysian government is also encouraging citizens to report Communist activity. Malaysian intelligence has set up a special address, P.O. Box 5000, to which anyone can write without revealing his identity or even putting a stamp on the envelope. Lately, the flow of mail to Box 5000 has increased substantially, much of it from local anti-Communist Chinese. It was, in fact, a letter mailed to the box that resulted in the capture of the national school of subversion.